Jamie Foxx to Headline Netflix Boxing Movie ‘Fight for ’84’ from ‘Narcos,’ ‘Griselda’ Director
Jamie Foxx is set to star in and produce the Olympic boxing movie “Fight for ’84” for Netflix. The Oscar-winner will play a coach hired to reconstitute the U.S. Olympic boxing team after the original team is killed in a tragic plane crash in 1980. In the 1984 Olympics, the U.S. won nine gold medals in boxing, the most in Olympic history. The project was announced during Netflix’s upfront presentation on May 14.
Columbian filmmaker Andrés Baiz (“Santanás”) — who helmed Netflix’s 2024 limited series “Griselda,” as well as episodes of “The Sandman,” “Narcos: Mexico,” and “Marcos” for the streamer — is making his English-language feature debut with the movie. Andrea Berloff (“Straight Outta Compton”), John Gatins (“Flight”), and Andy Weiss (“White Boy Rick”) wrote the screenplay.